Religion: How Pope John Paul I Won

Seated at a table in front of the Sistine Chapel altar, the Cardinal
solemnly intoned the name written on each ballot. "Luciani . . .
Luciani . . . Luciani . . ." Beside him sat two other Cardinal
scrutatores (vote counters) who carefully plucked the ballots from a
silver chalice, unfolded them and passed them to their colleague. It
was the fourth and final ballot of the astonishing one-day conclave
that gave the Catholic world its 263rd Pope: Albino Cardinal Luciani,
65,...